Plato Flashcards
1
Q
Who was Plato’s teacher
A
Socrates
2
Q
Who was Plato’s student
A
Aristotle
3
Q
Is Plato a rationalist, an empiricist or an existentialist?
A
Rationalist
4
Q
What is Plato’s analogy about
A
Prisoners in a cave
5
Q
What do the prisoners in Plato’s analogy signify
A
Us humans who see false reality
6
Q
What does the escaped prisoner in Plato’s analogy signify
A
Philosophers
7
Q
What does the cave signify in Plato’s analogy
A
Physical world
8
Q
What does the sun represent in Plato’s analogy
A
The truth
9
Q
What do the shadows represent in Plato’s analogy
A
What we believe to be the truth
10
Q
What school did Plato found?
A
The academy in Athens
